Suspender-buckle



(No Model.)

J. F. TOWNSEND.

SUSPENDER BUCKLE.

No. 324,897. Patented Aug. 25, 1885.

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SU$PENDERBUCKLE- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.324,897, dated August 25, 1885,

Application lilcd June 15, 1885. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J osnrn FRANKLIN TOWNSEND, of Oambridgeport, in thecounty of Middlesex, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have inventeda new and useful Improvement in Suspender Buckles; and I do herebydeclare the same to be described in the following specification andrepresented in the-accompanying drawings, of which Figures 1 and 2 arefront views, Figs. 3 and 4. rear views, and Figs. 5 and 6 longitudinalsections, of my improved buckle as applied to a suspender band or strap.Figs. 1, 3,

and 5 relate to one, and Figs. 2, 4, and 6 to another strap and itsbuckle. Fig. 7 is a front view, Fig. 8 a rear view, and Fig. 9 an edgeview, of the buckle shown in Fi rs. 1, 3, and 5, while Fig. 1.0 is afront view, Fig. ll a rear view, and Fig. 12 an edge view, of the buckleshown in Figs. 2, 4-, and 6.

The nature of my invention is defined in the claim hereinafterpresented.

The buckle A is represented in Figs. 1, 3, and 5 as having a hook, O,attached to and projecting from it, and Figs. 2, 4, and 6, as detachedfrom such hook, which in this latter case is pro\idcd with a slot, (1,to receive the suspender-strap B.

In the upper part of the frame I) of the buckle there is a duplextilting tongue, 0, which is a rectangular plate curved transversely, andhaving at the middles of its opposite ends journals d, to extend intobearings in the frame, such tongue being arranged above and parallelwith and at a short distance from the upper cross-bar, c, of the frame.From the said crossbar 0 there extends downward toward and nearly to thelower cross-bar, f, of the frame a flat elastic spring or tongue, g,formed as represented.

In Figs. 1, 3, and 5 the strap B is shown as extending in one directionthrough the buckle-frame, in which caseit goes between the npptr bar ofsuch frame and the tilting duplex tongue, after which such strap is leddownward to the lower bar of and thence through the buckle-frame, inwhich case it goes between the said lower bar and the spring or elastictongue g. On laying hold of the strap with one hand about the buckle,and pulling with the other hand the buckle downward, the tilting tonguewill be caused to tilt and bear atits two opposite edges against thestrap, and, with the upper bar of the frame, will operate to prevent thebuckle from sliding on the strap. The spring-tongue is to keep the strapagainst the lower bar of the frame. The buckle can readily be movedupward on the strap.

In Figs. 2, at, and G the buckle, constructed essentially like thatrepresented in Figs. 1, 3, and 5, has to its frame an auxiliary or guidebar, h, which is below and in front of the bar f, and is attached to theframe by curved arms or projections i i, extending therefrom, asrepresented. The strap B goes through the frame from rear to frontthereof, between its upper bar and the duplex tilting tongue, thence thestrap goes downward between the 1 )wer bar, 7, and the guidc-bar 71,thence backward through the slot (0 of the hook, thence upward and againforward through the buckle-frame, between the spring-tongue and lowerbar thereof, thence around a wire, I, going across the buckleframe, andthence between the said wire and the lower bar of the frame. The wire atits ends projects upon the fronts of the sides of the frame.

With the mode shown in Figs. 2, 4-, and 6 of applying a strap to thebuckle and its hook at larger strap in most cases can be used relativelyto the strap shown in Figs. 1, 3, and 5.

The buckleframe may be either with or without the strap guide-bar h, orsuch frame may have the hook either projecting from or disconnected withit, as represented, such hook being to support the ring 1' of the pairof front buttoning branch straps, s s, of the suspender.

From the above it will be seen that neither tongue of the buckle has anypoints or serrations to catch in or wear the strap.

I claim- The buckle-frame provided with the duplex or concavo-convextongue 0, arranged ith and adapted to such frame as described, and withthe elastic curved tongue 9, projecting from the said frame andextending down nearly to the lower bar thereof, all being substantiallyas set fortlr.

JOSEPH FRANKLIN TOWNSEND.

Witnesses:

1t. 11. EDDY, S. N. PIPER.

